In France, it's illegal to make bread with ingredients other than flour, water, yeast, salt. That's it by law.
It is most amazing though. Intended to be consumed the same day.
Seems unenforceable though. Maybe it's just for commercial bread.
I learned how to make French fries at one of the first McDonald's after school in 1959. I didn't know it at the time it was a French method. They were cooked twice. Once to blanch. Just to the point of being translucent, cooled, then to fry. It's still the best way IMO. A close 2nd is precooked frozen fries cooked in a skillet in oil not the oven.
I'm not French but I believe the French cook like no other culture.